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the French Institute, of the Royal Academies of Naples, Turin and 

 Munich ; of the Institute of Fine Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam; 

 of the Linnean Societies of Paris and London; theWernerian Society 

 of Edinburgh ; and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal 

 Society in 1820. In 184-2, M. de Saussure was unanimously elected 

 President of the Scientific Congress, which met that year at Lyons, 

 thus marking the high esteem in which he was held as a man of 

 science. Having preserved throughout life the best health, M. de 

 Saussure died on the 18th of April 1845, at the advanced age of 78, 

 leaving behind him the reputation of a long life passed in severe 

 and patient study, interrupted only when he came before the world 

 with the results of his laborious experiments and researches. 



The thanks of the Meeting were given to the President for his 

 Address, with a request that he would allow it to be printed. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers 

 having been read by the Secretary, and Joseph Smith and Samuel 

 Solly, Esqs. having, with the consent of the Society, been nominated 

 Scrutators in examining the lists, the votes of the Fellows present 

 were collected. 



Dr. Roget, on the part of the Scrutators, reported the following 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen as being duly elected Officers and Coun- 

 cil for the ensuing year, viz. — 



President. — The Marquis of Northampton. 



Treasurer, — George Rennie, Esq., V.P. 



^ f> , . / Peter Mark Roget, M.D. 

 a^ecretanes, | g^^^^^ Hunter Christie, Esq., M.A. 



Foreign Secretary. — Lieut.-Col. Edward Sabine, R.A. 



Other Members of the Council. — John Bostock, M.D. ; Sir William 

 Burnett, M.D., K.C.H., V.P. ; Charles Daubeny, M.D. ; Bryan Don- 

 kin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of Ely, V.P. ; Thomas Galloway, Esq.. 

 M.A. ; William Robert Grove, Esq., M.A. ; Leonard Horner, Esq., 

 V.P. ; Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart., M. A., V.P. ; John Forbes Royle, 

 M.D. ; William Sharpey, M.D. ; William Henry Smyth, Capt. R.N. ; 

 John Taylor, Esq. ; Charles Wheatstone, Esq. ; Rev. Robert Willis, 

 M.A. ; Lord Wrottesley, V.P. 



The thanks of the Meeting were given to the Scrutators for their 

 trouble in examining the lists. 



The following is the statement of the Receipts and Payments of 

 the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on the table 

 by the Treasurer : — 



